Social Responsibilities Round Table OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

NEWSLETTERnumber 133 December 1999 from the srrt coordinator: CANGreeting fellow SRRT Members. It is customary to begin one’s first message to you by thanking you for the opportunity to serve, that I am looking forward to the challenge and tasks at hand, and that I hope to hear from you with suggestions, ideas, comments, etc. However, there is something that is needed first.

Wendy Thomas, who stepped down as SRRT Coordinator at the ALA Annual Meeting after serving two terms at the helm of this Round Table, deserves all of our thanks for her tenure in office. It is hopeful that as one accepts the challenge this position offers that it lands in the hands of a capable and caring person and a true leader. We were so blessed with Wendy. SRRT grew in many ways over the past two years and sometimes it was a rocky road over which the round table traveled. Looming over SRRT for several years has been an ongoing problem with our budget, a problem whose resolution began seeing light last year. While it is a problem with which we must still contend, Wendy and others have provided initial guidance and direction for us to follow. One of the task forces in SRRT was successful in achieving its own momentum and strength to take the next step in its growth, becoming the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Round Table. Wendy helped in this process. Wendy leaves a legacy of leadership for SRRT. I like to think that she also leaves us a big, friendly, and warm smile and the simple word, “Hope,” as SRRT moves around the next meander in the river.

Since the 1999 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, I have spent my SRRT-time learning about budget processes, relationships between and with our Task Forces, understanding more and more each day the roles of SRRT, the groups comprising SRRT, and the people served by SRRT and its voice of social responsibility. Part of that later endeavor is working with SRRT members to increase our presence on ALA committees and other ALA bodies that serve as instruments of influence and governance. I hope that we will see more SRRT members seeking roles outside of SRRT itself where they can serve ALA and the profession. I hope that we as a round table and that the individual groups that form the heart of SRRT can work to promoting our individual and our collective agendas before other members of ALA - and beyond. I am planning to attend and would encourage others in SRRT, especially leaders of our task forces, to participate in programs and activities of the New Members Round Table. This provides us a tremendous opportunity to share with members new to the profession and even newer to the Association that SRRT is a vital and viable group within ALA.

In recent weeks there has been a glimmer of hope on the SRRTAC-L discussion list, with students in library schools voicing there concerns over several issues. A common thread running through these messages has been the lack of a social awareness among their peers. There is a GREAT potential for those of us working in or near schools that are training and educating librarians to offer our expertise and talents as professionals. We can and should an essential force blowing on the glowing ember of social consciousness in our library schools. We can do this by serving as speakers for ALA student chapters. Better yet, invite the chapter and faculty to your library not only to discuss and demonstrate what happens there, but how can and do put into your own profession the ideas and ideals of social responsibility. Writ about SRRT in their school newsletters. If they don’t have one, help them get one started. Even a two-sided single sheet of (recycled, chlorine-free) paper can convey a lot of information. Mentor, teach, encourage, invite, and share — all things we can and should be doing for students wanting to enter our profession. continued on page 2

CONTENTS

more fred and little boxes...2 resolutions...3-4 task force reports...5-6 book review...7 fresh blood...8 SRRT NEWSLETTER S I T S S E R

U 2000 Annual R N S FurtherB Coordination Conference (from the front page)

AGA Poster Sessions Midwinter 2000 - the first SRRT Meetings of a new S decade, century and millennium We will not have a lack of Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2000 things to do in San Antonio! SRRT Activities will begin American Library Association Annual Conference in , Saturday, January 15, at 8:00 a.m. with the All-Task Force are nowbeing accepted. An application form is Meeting. This is the traditional time slot afford all of our available on the poster session website at http:// ONTINUING task forces to gather in one location for informal to quasi- www.lib.siu.edu/ala. The website also provides rules and

C formal discussion. This is the time to discuss future guidelines for presenting poster sessions, helpful hints in programs, activities, and issues — publications, Web site HE applying, frequently asked questions, and photos of sample

T development, services. Many task forces use this time for official business meetings, discussing issues not only for poster sessions. If you don’t have access to the World Wide and about the task force, but preparing materials to be Web, you can apply via e-mail. Send the following information brought before the SRRT action Council or to the ALA to [email protected]: Council. I have requested that all of SRRT meetings be held in the conference hotel so that ALA staff might be in closer Title, author’s name, institutional address, e-mail proximity to our meetings and able to attend. Following the All- address, and 200 word abstract Task Force Event the SRRT Action Council I will convene in the same room from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Action Council II will take place If you don’t have access to the World Wide Web or to on Monday, January 17 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. We will be discussing e-mail, please contact Jody Bales Foote, Chair, ALA Poster the SRRT budget issue, hear task force reports and discuss Session Review Panel, Morris Library Mailcode 6632, relationships between SRRT and the tasks forces. The issue about task force by-laws or guidelines will take place. SRRT members will Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6632, or be submitting a number of resolutions to the ALA Council, as well 618-453-2274 (telephone) for instructionson how to apply. The as discuss several aspects about Council and ALA governance. deadline for submitting an application is January 31, 2000. Please have your resolutions prepared before Action Council Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2000 whether their meetings and come with 40 copies for distribution. PCs, Macs and poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the copying services are found in the ALA Office at the Convention conference. Poster Sessions will be presented on July 8, 9, Center to help you prepare any materials you would like to bring to and 10 at the Chicago conference. Action Council. If you have an item you would like to have on the agenda(s) for Action Council I or II, please email me directly for having it added. SRRTAC-L Safe travels to all of us planning to attend ALA Midwinter. I hope to see many of you there. The SRRT discussion group SRRTAC-L is open to all SRRT members and is a low-traffic [less than five messages a day Fred Stoss, unless there’s a hot topic brewing] way of keeping up with SRRT Coordinator SRRT’s issues and discussions in-between conferences. Help decide SRRT’s future directions and join in some lively debates. SRRT Newsletter (ISSN 0749-1670) is published quarterly by If you would like to join the SRRT discussion group, the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library send the following message to [email protected]: Association. It is sent to members of SRRT as part of their membership and is available to others by subscription for $15.00 subscribe SRRTAC-L [your first name] [your last name] per year. Subscription is open to both members and non- members of ALA. Correspondence and manuscripts may be sent to the editors at SRRT’S WEB SITE Jessamyn West: [email protected] or Ken Thompson: [email protected] Want more information on SRRT? Want to find or the SRRT Newsletter book review editor contact information for the many SRRT Task Forces? Turn Adrienne Julius: [email protected] Views expressed in the newsletter are not necessarily those of your browser toward the official SRRT web site: ALA/SRRT. The editors reserve the right to edit submitted material as necessary or as whimsy strikes. Next deadline 4/15 http://www.jessamyn.com/srrt

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A New Year’s Resolutions

submitted for a membership vote at the earliest opportunity Resolution on Spectrum with a recommendation from Council to adjust the quorum for the purpose of facilitating the holding, once again, of Initiative membership meetings. WHEREAS the Spectrum Initiative is crucial for Passed by SRRT Action Council June 28, 1999 the broader and more effective development of our

RRT profession; and

S WHEREAS the photograph on the new Spec- trum Initiative brochure cover omits representations of Resolution on Sandy large ethnic groups that have been victims of discrimi-

PAKE Berman nation; and WHEREAS Sanford Berman is one of the most re- S WHEREAS the brochure refers peculiarly to spected voices in the field of librarianship; and

HUS people of “every hue” focusing on genetic attributes WHEREAS his dedicated work at Hennepin County rather than culture; and Library has enhanced the reputation of HCL tremendously WHEREAS the brochure avoids the question of through his innovated approaches to cataloging and brought the need to fight racism and institutionalized discrimi- it significan benefits; and

T nation; therefore be it WHEREAS Sanford Berman was formally reprimanded RESOLVED that the SRRT Action Council of the by management and then reassigned (i.e. removed from his American Library Association urges removal of this position in cataloging) on account of his discussion of brochure and substituting a positive and appropriate professional matters with colleagues and the voicing of his alternative. principled opinions on library matters; therefore be it Passed by SRRT Action Council June 28, 1999 RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association decries the denial of Sanford Berman’s rights to discuss differing opinions on professional matters in his area of expertise, and express our Resolution on ALA outrage at the behavior of , Membership Meeting Berman’s employer, who, in retribution, exiled him to work Quorum away from the cataloging to which he has dedicated several WHEREAS ALA is a membership organization; and highly productive decades; and finally be it WHEREAS the quorum for convening membership RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round meetings has been set so high that no membership meeting Table of the American Library Association calls for censure has been able to convene since the upward change in of Hennepin County Libraries administration for its infringe- attendees needed for a quorum was instituted; and ments of Berman’s free speech rights, for its retribution WHEREAS a membership organization should have against him and its overall violations of his professional membership meetings at annual conferences, which can rights. consider proposals etc. and refer items to be voted on by an Passed by SRRT Action Council June 28, 1999 elected council; therefore be it RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round Table urges ALA to modify the quorum requirements by Resolution on ALA and setting it at 100; and be it further RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round Professional Disputes in Table urges ALA to schedule membership meetings at a time Libraries Involving the and place which facilitates the convening of such a meeting; Infringement of Librarians and be it further RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round Rights and Responsibilities Table urges ALA to affirm the importance of membership WHEREAS the ALA Policy Manual makes clear that meetings at Annual conferences by recognizing that quorum the American Library Association is committed to defense of rules are meant to facilitate rather than render impossible the librarian’s rights including, but not confined to intellectual convening of such meetings; and finally be it freedom rights; and RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round WHEREAS a mechanism for dealing with these crucial Table urges that the by-laws change on the quorum be re- professional matters no longer exists since the dissolution of

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Resolutions SCRIM; therefore be it Speech; and be it further RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Resolved, that the Social Responsibilities Round Table Round Table of the American Library Association of the American Library Association demands that future calls on ALA to create a standing committee to deal Keynote Speakers be associated with life-enhancing work; with egregious violations of professional rights and and be it further responsibilities of librarians within libraries them- Resolved, that this resolution be distributed to the selves; and also be it ALA President, ALA Executive Board, and the library press. RESOLVED that such a committee should be Submitted by Al Kagan, Chair of SRRT International empowered to investigate and come to judgement Responsibilities Task Force MUNDO - about appropriate instances brought to its attention; Seconded by Mark Rosenzweig A - and finally be it Passed by SRRT Action Council, 6/28/99 RESOLVED that the committee can propose censure, remedies or the mediation of such disputes as ESOLV involve infringement of librarians’ rights as spelled out in our policy manual. Resolution in Support of Passed by SRRT Action Council June 28, 1999 EPA Libraries Whereas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency R (EPA) has recognized the importance of its mission to “move Resolution on the the Agency to the forefront of information management and providing the public with integrated and high quality Militarization of ALA and information” (Memo; to Assistant Administrators, Carolyn General Powell’s Keynote M. Browner, EPA Administrator, October 14, 1998); and Speech Whereas, the EPA Administrator has laid out an Whereas, General Colin Powell has been selected as the ambitious and welcomed plan to “create a structural frame 1999 ALA Keynote Speaker; and work for EPA’s new information office... consisting of three Whereas, Powell, as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for offices: Operations at a base in Vietnam, had a key role in trying to Information Policy and Collection cover up the My Lai Massacre; and Information Technology and Services Whereas, Powell, as President Reagan’s National Information Analysis and Access” Security Advisor, was of key importance in supporting the (Carol Browner, Inside EPA, December 11, 1998; Carol Contra War against the people of Nicaragua; and M Browner, letter to Peter Robertson, Acting Deputy Whereas, Powell, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Staff, illegally invaded Panama and bombed thousands of November 23, 1998); and civilians; and Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives is drafting Whereas, Powell presided over the Persian Gulf War a bill to “promote a “Second Generation” of Environmental killing thousands of civilians as well as thousands of Protection entitled, the Second-Generation of Environmental retreating soldiers on what was called “The Highway of Improvement Act (May 17, 1999, Representatives Calvin Death”; and Dooley and James Greenwood, Members of Congress)’ and Whereas, the continuing bombing of the civilian Whereas, Title I of this proposed bill, “Information infrastructure of Iraq and continuing sanctions have reduced Management” further recognizes EPA’s role as steward of a moderately affluent quality of like to poverty for most environmental data and information in the broadest sense of people in that country; and its responsibilities; and Whereas, the recent bombing of the civilian infrastruc- Whereas, Title I of this bill would require the EPA ture of Yugoslavia parallels the Iraq experience; and Administrator to, among other actions, designate a Chief Whereas, the has bombed four countries Information Officer, publish an annual report of environmen- within the last year, including a crucial pharmaceutical factory tal indicators, review existing agency monitor and reporting in Sudan; activities and requirements, and establish a program to Therefore be it resolved, that the Social Responsibilities provide money for states and localities to assist them in Round Table of the American Library Association deplores improving environmental reporting, highlight environmental the decision to hire General Powell to give the 1999 Keynote monitoring activities of all Federal agencies through budget reviews, establish a public recognition program; and

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including the lifting of sanctions, promotion of a weapons free zone in the Middle East, and balancing our collections. International Al Kagan Chair, SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force Responsibilities [email protected] Task Force

The SRRT International Responsibilities Task

EPORTS Alternatives In Force had a successful program at the 1999 Annual R Conference on “Searching for the Enemy: Alternative Sources for US Foreign Policy.” It was co-sponsored Print

ORCE by the SRRT Alternatives in Print Task Force. Chuck

F The Alternatives In Print Task Force has had a change D’Adamo presented a selected bibliography on the in leadership, with Rory Litwin stepping in as coordinator and best books for US foreign policy and analyzed the ASK Charles Willett continuing as Counterpoise editor. For the content of articles in the Alternative Press Index. He midwinter meeting in San Antonio AIP is planning a discus- was therefore able to give us a table of authors and sion group with Cinco Puntos Press and Bryce Milligan of where they publish their articles, the number of Wings Press as guests. This will be an open meeting and will T articles on US foreign policy in the journals indexed, be advertised in the conference program. All are invited to the subjects covered, and the institutions and key subject attend. Gerardo Colmenar and Pat Leamon are organizing this terms. He also provided a quick printout of broad articles event. For the summer conference AIP is planning two published from 1991 to 1998. Send requests for copies of this programs - Erotia in Libraries, with Chuck Munson as chair, research [email protected]. and Alternative Children’s Literature, with Rory Litwin and Erik Leaver from the Institute for Policy Studies Teri Weesner as co-chairs. Ongoing projects include the described the work of the Institute and provided information publication of Counterpoise by Charles Willett and his fine packets including samples of their short policy briefings editorial board (too many to mention); the compilation of titled, Foreign Policy in Focus. These publications are a joint Alternative Publishers of Books in North America_ by Byron effort of the IPS and the Interhemispheric Resource Center. Anderson, projected to go to the web next year; the annual He also talked about US policy towards Iraq and Yugoslavia. Eubanks Award for contributions to the alternative press; the See their website at http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org or contact Erik at [email protected]. not-so-facetious Almost Banned Book Awards for the most Tom Fenton from WorldViews talked about how he significant, least acquired publications in libraries; and an identifies friendly organizations and prints the information in upcoming core list of alternative publications for medium their quarterly bibliography (with same title). He talked about sized libraries. If you would like to be involved in any of the work of World Views, and noted that their Third World these projects, please contact Rory Litwin at [email protected]. Resource Directory and their Africa World Press Guide are available free online. For more information, see their website athttp://www.igc.org/worldviews/awpguide/ or e-mail to [email protected]. Task Force on Ann Sparanese distributed a short handout bibliogra- phy on Cuba and Latin America. For copies, contact her at [email protected]. the Environment Elaine Harger provided a short annotated bibliography on works for middle or high school students. For copies, Happenings at EPA contact her at [email protected]. On October 26, EPA Administrator Carol Browner We also organized the protest against the appearance announced the formation of a new office within the structure of General Powell as ALA’s keynote speaker focusing on the of the agency, the Office of Environmental Information. The implications of this militarization of ALA and his outrageous most striking aspect about this is the establishment of this fee of $70,000 especially in light of his focus on volunteerism. new office is its placement at the Assistant Administrator Even though a vendor paid $50,000 of the fee, there are many level. “The Office of Environmental Information will play a better ways to spend the remaining $20,000 of our dues key role in supporting the Agency’s mission to enhance money. And perhaps the vendor’s $50,000 could have also public health and environmental protection by working to gone to something worthwhile. Finally, we note the passage improve the way we collect, manage, integrate, and provide of the SRRT resolution calling for a new policy towards Iraq access to environmental information,” Browner stated in her

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...continued from prior page memo to all EPA staff. One of the more critical aspects of this tation was published in the May 1999 issue of Counterpoise new office will the degree to which EPA will make data useful (published by SRRT’s Alternatives in Print Task Force).The for informing decisions, improving information management, EPA’s Center for Environmental Information and Statistics documenting performance, reducing reporting was created to bring environmental data and information to burdens, measuring success and enhancing public communities. The CEIS website, http://www.epa.gov/ceis/, access. Management and staff of the Office of provides teachers, officials, community and neighborhood Environmental Information will be reaching out to activists, students, libraries, and citizens with accessto build partnerships within the EPA as well as recommit information about their neighborhoods and communities in their existing relationships with other professional which they live. CEIS has developed and is adding to its organizations, including library and information inventories of environmental quality data and information EPORTS associations, societies, and organizations. Over the resources specific The data used by CEIS are reported to EPA R past five years the Task Force on the Environment has by states, tribes, territories, and other entities regulated by sought active participation in ALA meetings with the EPA. These data and information resources are collected

ORCE open houses and tours of EPA Libraries or having and managed by the EPA to support environmental programs

F EPA Librarians and information managers speaking at related to laws and regulations, such as the Clean Air Act, TFOE programs (Chicago, 1995; New York, 1996; San Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Resource ASK Francisco,1997; Washington, DC, 1998; Philadelphia Conservation and Recovery Act. The CEIS site is rather and New Orleans, 1999). TFOE is looking forward to

T graphic intensive with many maps, charts, andgraphs. If you extending its relationship with the EPA Library and are looking for information specific for your state, county, librarians at the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, city, town, village, hamlet, or your own block, check the EPA’s with a tour and open house of the EPA Region 5 data warehouse in the Center for Environmental Information Library. Speakers from the EPA will be telling us first hand and Statistics, you’ll find a wealth of information to keep your about the new organization and the Office of Environmental library and your library users abreast of environmental Information. We hope to have other EPA librarians and quality issues. information specialists talk about the National EPA Library Network, the continuing work of the EPA’s Center for Environmental Information and Statistics, and some of the Silver Anniversary for CEI unique data and information programs and services of the Region 5 Great Lakes Office. TFOE and SRRT approved On October 14th the Center for Environmental Informa- resolutions voicing concerns about the EPA Libraries, in tion in Rochester, New York celebrated its 25th Anniversary particular a disturbing trend in the reduction of their budgets. and Community Salute. CEI was founded in 1974 as a direct This resolution will be presented to the ALA Council for result of the demands for information and data by county and consideration at the ALA 2000 Midwinter Meeting. local officials and staff, teachers, students, business and community leaders, and citizens — all caught in the wake of an explosion of information created by Earth Day in 1970. To TFOE At the ALA Annual honor its commitment to the environmental cause CEI Meeting presented 25 Environmental Achievement Awards to local officials, businesses, activists, teachers, and others you have At last year’s annual meeting TFOE was treated with an helped to shape the environmental history of Rochester and outstanding overview of the many services and opportunities the Genesee-Finger Lakes region of New York. Kathryn S. for resources sharing with EPA Libraries and information Fuller, President of the World Wildlife Fund, provided the

programs.EPORTS What was special about these presentations was keynote address for the gala evening. She described recent and ongoing efforts of WWF in leading the way for conserv- not R only were the given by members of the EPA Library staff, but also by a member of TFOE and SRRT! Richard Huffine ing and protecting wildlife resources around the world. The ESOURCES CEI event was attended by more than 300. CEI was founded

andORCE colleagues provided an over view of the EPA Library R in 1974 by Dr. Elizabeth Thorndike. CEI’s first professional

Network, F a national network of services, products, publica- tion, and expertise. He also spoke about the EPA’s new librarian is Fred Stoss, past TFOE Chair and current SRRT NLINE CenterASK for Environmental Information and Statistics. I had the Coordinator. It was also Fred’s first position as a librarian. great fortune of participating with CEIS and representing For more information about CEI: 55 St. Paul Street, T

ALA O at the May 1999 President’s Conference on Rochester, New York 14604-1314; (716) 262-2870. CEI is Sustainability held in Detroit. The session at which we gave creating anew Web site at: http:// our presentations dealt with engaging communities in www.rochesterenvironment.org/. dialogues about the environment. A synopsis of my presen-

PAGE SIX NO. 133 DECEMBER 1999 continued from page 4 Whereas, the EPA Library Network serves as and time- Gay and lesbian literature since World tested, reliable, and trusted gatekeeper for the identification, War II: history and memory. acquistion, management, dissemination, and archiving of critical environmental data and informa- Sonya L. Jones, editor. tion through the development of its special collec- 1998: The Harrington Park Press, tions, repositories, services, networking, and New York. expertise; and (Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Whereas, the EPA Library network has made Homosexuality, Vol. 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998.) tremendous strides to provide the American people a strong commitment to the skills and services of In the introduction, Sonya L. Jones calls libraries and librarians to make environmental ESOLVING EVIEW Gay and Lesbian Literature since World War information as accessible; and R

R II “an attempt to chronicle the multifaceted Whereas, the EPA and the American Library explosion in gay and lesbian writing that has Association are initiating the development of TILL stronger ties to improve, enhance, and evolve OOK taken place in the second half of the twentieth existing programs, services, and resources to provide century”. Topics covered in this anthology comprehensive, long-term and consistent data and include American gay poetry (“The Calamus

S information base of environmental information; and Root: A Study of American Gay Poetry Since B Whereas, the Task Force on the Environment is World War II” by Walter Holland), the birth of dismayed at the failure of any public comments about independent lesbian feminist presses in the the EPA’s environmental initiatives to recognize or mention 1970s (“Built Out of Books: Lesbian Energy and the data and information management roles of its (or other) Feminist Ideology in Alternative Publishing” by Kate libraries or its (or other) librarians; and Adams), and the effect the AIDS epidemic has had Whereas, the Task Force on the Environment deplores on Latino literature (“Breaking the Silence, Disman- the recent and proposed massive cuts in budget allocations tling Taboos: Latino Novels on AIDS” by Alberto to support the EPA Libraries, EPA and EPA-contract Sandoval Sanchez). The essay on preservation and librarians; EPA library collection; and Whereas, the Task Force on the Environment feels access with regards to queer archives (“Resources for that these reductions will serious diminish the EPA Libraries Lesbian Ethnographic Research in the Lavender to provide collections, services, and expertise not only for Archives” by Alisa Klinger) is notable for two rea- the public but to the scientific, policy, and administrative sons: it addresses genuine concerns with regards to staffs of the agency; LGBT research and is also the only essay in this Be it resolved that the American Library Association collection that does not have a colon in its title. The continue to work with the EPA Libraries and centers for writing in this anthology ranges from clear and concise environmental information to construct stronger relations (“The literary and theoretical products of alternative and resource sharing; and that the American Library lesbian-feminist publishing have been one of the Association work with the U.S. Congress to include a clear richest and most last accomplishments of the women’s and meaningful recognition of the skills, resources, exper- liberation movement” from the Kate Adams essay) to tise, and collections of the EPA Libraries and Library incredibly pedantic (“In a gesture that reverses the Network; and that the American Library Association investigate the funding of the EPA Libraries and Library Lacanian model of the child moving into the Symbolic Network to assure that government resources are being Order as he separates from the pre-linguistic bond used to adequately fund the collections, staffs, resources, with the mother...” from “Inscribing a Lesbian Reader, services, and functions all of the EPA Libraries, EPA Projecting a Lesbian Subject: A Jane Rule Diptych” Librarians, and EPA-contract librarians. by Marilyn R. Schuster). Overall, however, the Respectfully submitted by: anthology is well-written, well-edited, and covers a Frederick W. Stoss, M.S., M.L.S. lot of new territory. Recommended for any academic Science and Engineering Library or queer library. SUNY University at Buffalo Submitted on behalf of the Task Force on the Environment Katia Roberto Social Responsibilities Round Table [email protected] Passed by SRRT Action Council, 6/28/99

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